The debate continues unabated – e. g. S. Georg 2004, A. Vovin 2005, S. Georg 2005 ( anti-Altaic ); S. Starostin 2005, V. Blažek 2006, M. Robbeets 2007, A. Dybo and G. Starostin 2008 ( pro-Altaic ).

* 2004 – Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from office by impeachment.

* 1932 – Helmut Griem, German actor ( d. 2004 )

* 1912 – Walt Gorney, American actor ( d. 2004 )

* 1923 – Ann Miller, American actor and dancer ( d. 2004 )

* 1952 – Ralph Wiley, American journalist ( d. 2004 )

* 2004 – U. S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers abusing and sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.

* 1909 – Juliana of the Netherlands ( d. 2004 )

* 1923 – Kagamisato Kiyoji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 42nd Yokozuna ( d. 2004 )

* 1923 – Jess Collins, American artist ( d. 2004 )

* 2004 – Hurricane Charley, a Category 4 storm, strikes Punta Gorda, Florida and devastates the surrounding area.

* 2004 – 156 Congolese Tutsi refugees are massacred at the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi.

* 2004 – Paul Atkinson, British guitarist ( The Zombies ) ( b. 1946 )

* 2004 – Aaron Bank, American Office of Strategic Services officer and founder of the US Army Special Forces ( b. 1902 )

* 2004 – Ioannis Kyrastas, Greek footballer and manager ( b. 1952 )

* 2004 – Carrie Snodgress, American actress ( b. 1946 )

* 2004 – Nilo Soruco, Bolivian singer-songwriter ( b. 1927 )

* 2004 – A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 in Asunción, Paraguay.

* 1941 – Étienne Roda-Gil, French songwriter and screenwriter ( d. 2004 )

* 2004 – The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks.

* 1905 – Franz König, Austrian cardinal ( d. 2004 )

* 1926 – Anthony Sampson, English journalist ( d. 2004 )

* 1946 – Syreeta Wright, American singer-songwriter ( d. 2004 )

* 2004 – Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer ( b. 1908 )

* 2004 – Bob Murphy, American sportscaster ( b. 1924 )

* 1911 – Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States ( d. 2004 )

* Kushner offered a reading from the Bible at the State Funeral of Ronald Reagan in the Washington National Cathedral on June 11, 2004.

* 2004 – Ronald Reagan, American actor and politician, 40th President of the United States ( b. 1911 )

* Ronald J. Brachman, Hector J. Levesque Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Morgan Kaufmann, 2004 ISBN 978-1-55860-932-7

* Ronald Cavaye, Paul Griffith and Akihiko Senda ( 2004 ).

* Asch, Ronald G. ( 2004 ) " A Difficult Legacy.

Former First Lady Nancy Reagan says her last goodbye to President Ronald Reagan on June 11, 2004, prior to the interment and concluding a Death and state funeral of Ronald Reagan | week-long state funeral for the president.

Ronald Reagan died in their Bel Air home on June 5, 2004.

In 2004, a new wasp species that acts as a parasite on butterfly larvae was discovered on the Pacific slope of the Talamanca mountain range in Costa Rica by Ronald Zúñiga, a specialist in bees, wasps and ants at the National Biodiversity Institute ( INBio ).

The body of former United States President | President Ronald Reagan lying in state ( photo June 10, 2004 )

* February 6 – Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States ( d. 2004 )

At the beginning of the June 5, 2004 show ( broadcast from Meadowbrook Musical Arts Center in Gilford, New Hampshire ), Keillor announced that former U. S. President Ronald Reagan had died.

In June 2004, Mulroney presented a eulogy for former U. S. President Ronald Reagan during the latter's state funeral.

In that same period Republican presidential candidates polled more than 90 percent of the county's vote on two occasions, Ronald Reagan in 1984 and George W. Bush in 2004.

* Bacon, Ronald Leonard, 2004.

* Bacon, Ronald Leonard, 2004.

* Dale, Ronald J., The Fall of New France: How the French Lost a North American Empire, 1754 – 1763 2004, James Lorimer and Company, Ltd., Toronto.

* Aronson, Ronald ( 2004 ).

On October 1, 1913, he married Margarete Georgen with whom he had three sons, Heinz Günter ( born Aug 2nd 1914 to 2004 ) and Kurt ( born 17th September 1918 to 1984 ), Ronald Mach Dornaldt Guderian ( born 15th May 1919 to 1995 ).

* Ronald Reagan ( 2004 )

( John Hospers in 1972, Ronald Reagan in 1976, Lloyd Bentsen in 1988, and John Edwards in 2004 all received one electoral vote from faithless electors, but none won these votes in a general election.

In 2004, American science fiction screenwriter Ronald D. Moore stated the style of the first season's opening credits of Space: 1999 inspired the opening credit sequence for his acclaimed remake of Battlestar Galactica.

" Silvers asserted in 2004: " The pieces we have published by such writers as Brian Urquhart, Thomas Powers, Mark Danner and Ronald Dworkin have been reactions to a genuine crisis concerning American destructiveness, American relations with its allies, American protections of its traditions of liberties ....

On April 4, 2006, Federal judge Ronald S. W. Lew issued a summary judgment ruling that Jerry Siegel's heirs had the right to revoke their copyright assignment to Superboy and had successfully reclaimed the trademark to the name as of November 17, 2004.